View Poll Results: Do you actually OWN your Impreza?
Classic - fully paid for and owned outright
114
39.58%
Classic - bought with hp/loan/company scheme - not paid off yet
27
9.38%
New age - fully paid for and owned outright
101
35.07%
New age - bought with hp/loan/company scheme - not paid off yet
46
15.97%
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Do you actually OWN your Scoob?
12 April 2006, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
I'm extremly suprised that nearly 80% of scooby owners own their cars outright ........
Of the people that have voted, 80% feel they need to gloat
12 April 2006, 02:34 PM
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Sold my Classic for cash so went to the dealer the next day and put it down on my MY05 STi, £5k deposit, the rest on finance. 5.5% flat rate was the deal so wasn't too bad. I'm happy with the car so why not?
12 April 2006, 02:43 PM
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My Scoob was the third car i bought with HP (kept swapping) in six months, so i had lost lots of money.
But I have 9 more payments to make then she is all mine
But I have 9 more payments to make then she is all mine
12 April 2006, 02:46 PM
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12 April 2006, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by homerjay
like you say if your happy with the car then why not..
youre only on this lump of rock once!
youre only on this lump of rock once!
12 April 2006, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by silent running
Following on from the 'Impreza gone to the dogs' thread, I'd be very interested in finding out who on here actually OWNS their Scoob. I think that paying for your car out of your own pocket in cash gives you a very different outlook on ownership to someone who buys new or newish cars, trades in every three years on some kind of hp / loan scheme or has a company car etc.
I personally bought the best car I could afford for £4-£5k that did everything I needed (a classic WRX wagon incidentally) and would hopefully last a long time. Whether there are 'chavs' driving them around or the resale value is low etc etc are things that simply do not affect me.
And now I come to think of it, it would be interesting to see how much on average people spend on buying a car with their own money, and how much they spend if it's someone else paying in the first instance e.g. a bank loan, a company car scheme etc. I can't believe there are that many people that actually spend say 25 grand of their own real money i.e. cash under the bed or savings - on a new car. There's a lot of derision sometimes on SN because Scoobs are now available at '£3k' but I wonder if this is from people who don't even own their own car outright? They've got an expensive Scoob, but whose actually is it, when push comes to the shove?
I personally bought the best car I could afford for £4-£5k that did everything I needed (a classic WRX wagon incidentally) and would hopefully last a long time. Whether there are 'chavs' driving them around or the resale value is low etc etc are things that simply do not affect me.
And now I come to think of it, it would be interesting to see how much on average people spend on buying a car with their own money, and how much they spend if it's someone else paying in the first instance e.g. a bank loan, a company car scheme etc. I can't believe there are that many people that actually spend say 25 grand of their own real money i.e. cash under the bed or savings - on a new car. There's a lot of derision sometimes on SN because Scoobs are now available at '£3k' but I wonder if this is from people who don't even own their own car outright? They've got an expensive Scoob, but whose actually is it, when push comes to the shove?
12 April 2006, 05:41 PM
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Pay mine monthly. I paid yearly when I first started driving and had to cancel the policy half way through as I changed cars and Insurers. Only received 2 months premium back 
If you pay monthly you can just stop the policy and stop paying the monthly payments.
If you pay monthly you can just stop the policy and stop paying the monthly payments.
12 April 2006, 05:45 PM
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I bought an Impreza 2000 when i was 17 and got insured!!! Not many peeps did that. Then i sold that and got a wrx then bought a 2000 again all with hard earnt cash!!!
12 April 2006, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by cookstar
JUst a question to go with this thread.
Who pays for their insurance monthly?
I do
Who pays for their insurance monthly?
I do
12 April 2006, 06:32 PM
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i traded in an 03 R1 for mine and its a classic!! so own it completly.. but i have to pay the insurance monthly!!
I've got loads of mates that have bought cars on finance and paid stupid amounts for doing it.
I've got loads of mates that have bought cars on finance and paid stupid amounts for doing it.
12 April 2006, 07:08 PM
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my woman moved in with me .she got half the money her x made on their house .went out got a new civic type r sold that and now have a my00turbo with no finance only insurance monthly.but ive had cars on finance
12 April 2006, 07:56 PM
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Paid cash for mine - at the time I could have either bought the classic outright for cash, or used it as a deposit and got pretty much anything I wanted ( within reason ) - decided I would rather have a car I totally own that I know I wont have to be paying for monthly, plus for the amount of use it gets I couldnt really justify spending thousands extra on a new car for the hell of it.
I can see the other side where people like to have a brand new car that nobody else has driven, but for the saving on depreciation for buying one a couple of years old, dont think I would ever buy new.
I can see the other side where people like to have a brand new car that nobody else has driven, but for the saving on depreciation for buying one a couple of years old, dont think I would ever buy new.
